(Bloomberg, New York, 12 September 2024) The US Export-Import Bank is considering funding a liquefied natural gas project led by Eni SpA off the coast of Mozambique, years after investing in an onshore facility to produce the fuel that’s been delayed by security issues and opposed by...
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2024/09/30
Country: Australia, Spain
ECAs: Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Renewables Now, 13 September 2024) Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd has hired Affinity Capital Group as a lead manager and strategic financial adviser to help it raise about USD 6.5 billion (EUR 5.90bn) for the development and construction of a large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facility in...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, End Coal Financing, European Union, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Bloomberg, 17 September 2024) A group of developed nations will make a new push to resolve differences amid fading prospects for a deal to restrict funding of foreign oil and gas projects by their export credit agencies. Restricting export credit agencies is seen as a potentially important...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Oil Change International
(Guardian, London, 24 September 2024) Rich countries could raise five times the money that poor countries are demanding in climate finance, through windfall taxes on fossil fuels, ending harmful subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires, research has shown. Developing nations are asking for...
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2024/09/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(Oil Change International, Washington, 24 September 2024) Rich countries can mobilize well over $5 trillion a year for climate action at home and abroad by ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and changing unfair global financial rules. This briefing, endorsed by 36 civil...
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2024/09/30
Country: Germany, Indonesia
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Risk Net, London, 26 September 2024) Last year, Deutsche Bank was selected as sole hedge co-ordinator and hedge arranger for a landmark $3.1 billion project-financing deal in Indonesia. Deutsche Bank declined to say who the client was, only that it was a processing and petrochemical company...
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2024/08/31
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
(International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 27 August 2024) Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge. This report analyzes the progress made by Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) signatories on shifting international public finance away...
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2024/07/30
Country: China, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(The Asset, Hong Kong, 10 July 2024) Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a general agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) to provide a credit line of up to US$3 billion. The Japanese export credit agency will contribute US$$1.8 billion. The proceeds will...
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2024/07/30
Country: Australia, France
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining
(DeSmog, Seattle, 26 June 2024) Campaigners are increasingly taking out lawsuits against the funders of fossil fuels and other climate-harming activities,...
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2024/07/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Above Ground, Oil Change International
(EcoJustice, Vancouver, 24 July 2024) Export Development Canada (EDC) has renewed a $200- to $300-million loan to oil and gas giant Enbridge Inc., despite environmental...
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2024/07/30
Country: Switzerland
ECAs: Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Global Trade Review, London, 17 July 2024) Climate campaigners have accused Switzerland’s export credit agency (ECA) of “watering down” its climate commitments, after it scrapped a pledge to end all support for the fossil fuel sector. Swiss Export Risk Insurance (Serv) was...
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2024/07/30
Country: United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Oil Change International
(Climate Change News, Broadstairs UK, 27 July 2024) As world leaders gathered in Dubai at the start of COP28 last December, the United Arab Emirates dropped a surprise headline-grabbing announcement. The host nation of the UN talks...
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2024/06/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, OECD, Oil, Gas and Mining, Renewables, Transparency
Member: Friends of the Earth USA
(E&E News, Arlington, 17 June 2024) The fate of an international plan to end a major funding source for fossil fuel projects could be decided this week by U.S. officials. Some of the world’s richest countries will meet behind closed doors starting Monday to discuss a European Union-led...
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2024/06/30
Country: China
ECAs: Sinosure
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Nigerian Tribune online, Ibadan, 26 June 2024) Civil society organisations have called on the Chinese government to rescind its decisions to build crude oil pipeline across East African countries. In an open letter to the Chinese Embassy’s Charge d’affaire Zhang Yi, Smith Nwokocha of StopEACOP...
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2024/06/30
Issue: Climate Change, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency
(Asharq Al-Awsat, London, 1 July 2024) QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC announced on Monday [10 October 2023?] that they have secured $4.4 billion financing for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals project. The project financing comprises commercial and Islamic lenders and a group...
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